Edward Jones Corredera is a Senior Research Fellow at the Max Planck Institute for Comparative Public Law and International Law and a Lecturer at the UNED. He is the author of Odious Debt: Bankruptcy, International Law, and the Making of Latin America, published by Oxford University Press.

April 10, 2025

Analysis

Regimes of Bankruptcy

Debt and intervention in Latin America

Faced with the rise of interventionism by the United States, Latin American political thinkers tried to scale up the mechanics of bankruptcy—the civil means to establish the legality of a debt—to a global scene, but they were afforded all of…